This cementing of Malay unity, together with the balanced poll results, enabled the assembly to end without rancor and left delegates looking buoyantly to the future.

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First Minister Rhodri Morgan says that the Assembly Government does have a balanced transport policy.

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Here, too, thanks to the assembly's complex voting rules, the arithmetic is finely balanced.

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The Northern Ireland Assembly was set up in 1998 as a power-sharing body that balanced the interests of unionists (who want to remain attached to Britain) and nationalists (who want a united Ireland).

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